Our InFER talks enter another round! We are regularly visited by international scientists to discuss their exciting research projects. Feel welcome to visit us in the upcoming winter semester 2025 for discussions about peace and security, political communication and redistribution!

very much looking forward to this semester's Comparative Politics Speaker Series @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social with Valerie Sticher, @rsenninger.bsky.social, Nona von Uexkull, & Leonce Röth. Join us!

Thrilled that my paper "Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States" with Nic Fishman, @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social, and @dashunwang.bsky.social was published in @science.org today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Unsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winners" by Roman Senninger, Martin Baekgaard, and Henrik Seeberg. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Do high workloads force bureaucrats to discriminate? In a published paper at the @thejop.bsky.social, I challenge the dominant explanation of discrimination in public service delivery. Surprisingly, I find that bureaucrats are able to handle substantial workloads without discriminating.

Thrilled to share that our paper "A Learning Approach to the Governance of Professionals. Field Experimental Evidence" with scandersen.bsky.social has been accepted for publication in jpart1991.bsky.social See threat and link below below 👇 1/9

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣 New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering: * Have moral appeals increased over time? * Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned? * Are some topics consistently more moralized than others? osf.io/preprints/os...

Which countries do citizens see as credible models for reform? I’m presenting pilot data @lundsuniversitet.bsky.social today: Nordic and richer countries are preferred benchmarks, but performance information can shift who is seen credible. \w @muzhou-zhang.bsky.social and @winniexia.bsky.social

It's striking how engaging in democratic processes can, ironically, lead to democratic discontent when the results feel personally or politically unfavorable. Even in strong democracies!

Our article “Unsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winners” is now online @thejop.bsky.social Using RDD and elite survey data from Denmark, we show that losing candidates express greater concern about electoral fairness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/734240

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year's WhoGov workshop on Political Elites! It is amazing to see so much great research presented on political elites and meet so many great people. And thank you to @inalkristiansen.bsky.social and @jonaswschmid.bsky.social for co-organizing the event

More excellent research at the WhoGov workshop with a keynote by @szakonyi.bsky.social, and presentations by @miguelpereira.bsky.social @rsenninger.bsky.social @jbvalgermo.bsky.social @fiva.no @martesaga.bsky.social @haakongjerlw.bsky.social @mnagawa.bsky.social @antonkronborg.bsky.social and more

This August marks the official start of my new @erc.europa.eu funded project on youth & their conceptions of political power #YOPOW 🫅🏻 & with that I can also announce the 1st postdoc joining the team: @lisaherbig.bsky.social 💫 Lisa's skill and creativity make her a true win for the project 🙌🏻

We're kicking off a new season of your favourite show next Tuesday: The Migration & Ethnicity Workshop @aarhusuniint.bsky.social 🔥With an exciting line-up of stars, it promises to deliver world-class entertainment every second week. Please join if you're around (no online presentations).

📢 Glad to share my new publication in @polbehavior.bsky.social 📢 In this paper, I study whether authoritarians’ electoral success abroad can change citizens’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Really looking forward to this great workshop! 👇

Apply to EuroWEPS 12/13! We're organizing the next EuroWEPS workshops at Bocconi (Nov 14) and EUI (Dec 15) to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 30

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️ Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state. #Democracy #PoliticalScience 🧵 url: osf.io/usqdb_v2

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

📢 University of Warwick is hiring two Assistant Professors (apply by 17 July 2025): •International Relations (Conflict & Security): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a... •International Organisations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a... #PoliSciJobs #PolScijobs

#MethodsHub #Study #helpwanted Invitation to participate: Study on method reproducibility The Methods Hub team at GESIS is conducting a study as part of the Tier2 project on how easily researchers can reproduce results from computational methods.

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

With Denmark 🇩🇰 taking over the EU Presidency, it’s the perfect time to spotlight our new book by a DK-based team! We study how the European Commission navigates interests, conflict, information & evidence in policy preparation. Free intro + promo code 👉 academic.oup.com/book/59966

Reminder: Great job opportunities at Aarhus University! Please help spread the word before everyone disappears for summer break! 🏖️

Great #EPSA2025 conference! One thing I noticed: many discussants talked too long. Keep it short (2–3 key points), send the rest to the authors. Remember to leave time for author replies and audience questions. It’s not about you!

If you're still at #EPSA2025 today: Catch our Panel P13-S315: Politicians & Representation 🕐 13:10–14:50 📍 Room -1.A.05 Featuring: @jacklucas.bsky.social, @mathisbr.bsky.social, John Griffin, @mafaldapratas.bsky.social I’m presenting our study on evidence selection by politicians👇

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

I'm presenting work w the amazing @jenny-oser.bsky.social and @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social at #EPSA2025 on Thursday. We combine 40 years of parallel surveys among citizens/MPs + a survey experiment w Swedish politicians on participation and public opinion Come and say hi - always happy to meet!

Had a fantastic visit to @unisalzburg.bsky.social for a talk at the Colloquium of the Salzburg Centre for European Union Studies @sceus.bsky.social Great feedback and conversations. Thanks so much for the kind invitation, @aripollservent.bsky.social and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social!

🪧 New research 🪧 osf.io/preprints/os... Can protests move bystanders, people who observe protests without being part of the march? We conducted a 3-wave field experiment during real Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Berlin. Here's what we found 🧵👇

New preprint w. @rsenninger.bsky.social Sharing evidence on immigration with parliamentary candidates, we find that politicians from extreme parties - especially those on the far right - select evidence that aligns with their party's priorities

Very excited to share a new preprint. @jesperasring.bsky.social and I study how politicians engage with evidence in the real world. Link: osf.io/8zv9s

Never thought I’d be that person presenting three papers at one conference… and yet, here we are 😎 (pre-)EPSA 🇪🇸. Come say hi at #EPSA2025 if you’re curious any of them.

Vor meinem Urlaub hatte ich große Freude daran dem @spiegel.de ein Interview zu geben rundum unsere (mit @rsenninger.bsky.social) Forschung zur einfachen Sprache in der Politik und deren Auswirkung:

📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world? @rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern: 🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North. Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y 🧪🧵👇

🚨 Attention EPSA goers, please check if you are a chair or discussant. Many are finding out late! You won't see it by using the "Search" button in the #EPSA2025 program (only Browse), and there was no email to inform you. Check it in your profile coms.app/epsa2025/wel... or the spreadsheet below:

Cool data! The Global North is really where expert knowledge is produced. Not fair, not just, but yes soft power is mostly concentrated there. Wish GN elites cared. Also: differently from elsewhere, 60% of expert refs in USA docs cite papers with only USA-based academics as authors #exceptionalism

🚨New WP 🚨 The US plays a dominant role in informing policy worldwide. We show how its expertise shapes global policymaking — but also discuss how political pressures, shifting funding, and challenges to science could put this position at risk. Much more in the paper. Full thread below 👇

Wenn Politiker einfacher sprechen, suggerieren sie damit Verbundenheit mit den Bürgern. Politikwissenschaftler Daniel Bischof erklärt, welche Vorteile das hat – und wann es problematisch sein kann.

Starkes Interview von @danbischof.bsky.social im Spiegel zu unserer Forschung über einfache vs. komplexe politische Kommunikation.

"Invitation Letters Increase Response Rates in Elite Surveys" with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social. Short report @ JEPS. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The second edition of The Effect has been delayed a bit... because there were so many orders they had to switch to a bigger print run! Thank you everyone for your support, and check out the second edition here: www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...) w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

If you're a researcher (or, less likely, a policymaker) reading this, you'll definitely want to read on. Featuring a dataset that may include you - and findings that make a solid case for hanging out in this space and sharing your work.